Improvement in the manufacture of paper



3. WHEELER.

Improvement in Manufacture of Paper.

N0.128,992. PatentedJuly16,1872.

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SETH WHEELER, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMEINT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,992, dated July 16,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SETH WHEELER, of Albany, in the State of New York,have invvented an Improvement in Bundles of Paper,

and the following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

Paper, as it is delivered from the calendering-machine in a continuousweb, is usually cut up into sheets and laid into bundles. The sheets,being entirely separated, lie loosely upon each other, and require to beheavily cord'ed to keep the larger-sized bundles in proper shape whilebeing handled for transportation. The paper that is put up in the formof rolls is much more convenient for many purposes, because the same canbe pulled off the roll as required in printing upon the same oremploying it for other purposes in the arts. My invention consists in animprovement in the bundle of paper, whereby a new article is producedpossessing all the advantages of a roll of paper and of a square bundle,and the bundle is much more firm and less liable to be injured inhandling than the present bundles. The web of paper, as it is deliveredfrom the paper-making or calendering-machinery, is perforated with rowsof small holes or incisions at the points where one sheet is to beseparated from the next, and the web is folded alternately to the sizeof the bundle, preferably at the lines of the perforations; thereby thesheets are partially separated, and can easily be detached the one fromthe other by a pulling or tearing operation; but while in the bundle thesheets are held to each other at the alternate edges;

automatically counted, andthe present system of counting and packing byhand into bundles will be dispensed with.

In the drawing I have represented, by a perspective View, the sheet ofperforated paper as it descends in a continuous web, and folds by itsown weight at the lines of perforations or incisions, and forms abundle. The wrapping and cording of this bundle are to be of any usualor desired character.

I claim as my invention- The bundle of paper of=a continuous web, withperforations or incisions at the places where the sheets are to beseparated, and folded alternately into the form of a bundle, as a newarticle of manufacture, as set forth.

Signed by me this 5th day of December, A. D. 1871.

SETH WHEELER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. G. VEDDER, GEO. B. MARTIN.

